The 2026 Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium will be held from December 12 to December 13 in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2026) in Lisbon, Portugal. Aligning with the ICIS 2026 conference theme of "Analytics and AI for Digital Collaboration and Coexistence", the Pre-ICIS SIGDSA 2026 Symposium theme is “Analytics and AI-Based Decision Support for Digital Collaboration and Coexistence.” This theme highlights the growing importance of analytics, artificial intelligence, and decision support systems in enabling collaboration across digital, organizational, and societal contexts while addressing the opportunities and challenges of coexistence in an increasingly connected world.

We live in a world that has undergone significant digital transformation across nearly every aspect of society and the economy. Data-intensive interactions, intelligent algorithms, and autonomous technologies increasingly shape how individuals, organizations, and communities communicate, collaborate, and make decisions. At the same time, the world faces complex challenges related to sustainability, economic uncertainty, cybersecurity, social inequality, public health, and global governance. These developments create new opportunities and responsibilities for researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of analytics, artificial intelligence, and decision support systems.

The concept of digital collaboration and coexistence recognizes that individuals, organizations, technologies, and societies must increasingly operate across diverse and interconnected environments. Humans and AI systems coexist in decision-making processes. Data-rich and data-poor environments coexist across regions and industries. Differences in affordability, accessibility, digital literacy, and technological infrastructure continue to shape how digital opportunities are distributed and experienced. Understanding how analytics and AI-based decision support can facilitate collaboration across these realities represents one of the most important challenges facing the information systems discipline today.

The 2026 Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium invites scholars, educators, doctoral students, and practitioners to explore how analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative AI, and decision support technologies can contribute to more effective, ethical, inclusive, and sustainable forms of digital collaboration and coexistence. We particularly encourage research that examines how intelligent decision support can help organizations and societies address complex and often wicked problems while balancing innovation, responsibility, transparency, and human well-being.

SIGDSA provides a multidisciplinary forum for researchers, educators, and practitioners to exchange ideas and advance knowledge in business analytics, data science, artificial intelligence, and decision support systems. Through research presentations, teaching innovations, doctoral mentoring, panels, workshops, and industry engagement, the Symposium seeks to foster meaningful discussions that contribute to both theory and practice.

We welcome your participation and attendance at this exciting symposium. The Research Track, Teaching and Prototypes Track, Doctoral Development Workshop, and Panels and Workshops will bring together complementary perspectives on research, pedagogy, and practice through presentations, panels, research prototypes, teaching cases, tutorials, and related activities. The Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium will continue to build on the momentum of prior SIGDSA events by providing a forum for constructive discussions among researchers, instructors, doctoral students, and practitioners who are engaged in business analytics, data science, artificial intelligence, and decision support systems. More information about participation, submission calls, and important dates for the 2026 Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium will be posted on this website.

For the past ten consecutive years, SIGDSA has received an outstanding SIG award from AIS for the wide variety of activities, events, and projects made available to SIG members. Find out more about SIGDSA here. Join SIGDSA by clicking this link.

Submission Guidelines

All original submissions must conform to the submission template. Download the submission template here. Original submissions must not contain any author information.

Papers will be submitted through EasyChair submission system (submitting author needs to create an account to submit the paper). Please click the link below to upload your submission through EasyChair submission system: Click here to submit your paper

All submitted manuscripts will go through a double-blind review process.
 

In preparing your submission, we suggest that authors review the following helpful tips. Ensure that:

• The topic is relevant to the symposium theme and will draw an audience
• Objectives are clear and well-described
• Paper is clearly written
• Paper is well organized and flows logically
• The literature review is relevant, comprehensive, and up-to-date
• Analyses (conducted or proposed) are appropriate
• Evidence supports the authors' arguments
• Paper makes useful contributions (or, has the potential to make contributions) to the field
• The reference list is complete.

Committees

Conference Co-Chairs
Amir Zadeh, amir.zadeh@wright.edu, Wright State University, USA
Leo Vijayasarathy, Leo.Vijayasarathy@colostate.edu, Colorado State University, USA

Local Conference Co-Chair
Tiago Oliveira, toliveira@novaims.unl.pt, NOVA Information Management School, Portugal

Program Co-Chairs
Zhilei Qiao (George), qiaozl@uab.edu, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Stephen McCarthy, stephen.mccarthy@ucc.ie, University College Cork, Ireland

Research Track Co-Chairs
Karthik Srinivasan, karthiks@ku.edu, University of Kansas, USA
Brian Oflaherty, b.oflaherty@ucc.ie, UCC Ireland
Xingwei (Nancy) Yang, nancy.yang@torontomu.ca, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Ramasubramaniam, rams.m@liba.edu, Loyola Institute of Business Administration, India

Teaching Track Co-Chairs
Jongsawas Chongwatpol, jongsawas.c@nida.ac.th, NIDA Business School, Thailand
Rupesh Agrawal, agrawalr1@nku.edu, NKU, USA
Rachel Chung, rachel.chung@mason.wm.edu, William & Mary, USA

Doctoral Development Workshop Co-Chairs
Sepideh Ebtahimi, sepideh.ebrahimi@uwaterloo.ca, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ciara Heavin, C.Heavin@ucc.ie, University College Cork, Ireland
Aleš Popovič, ales.popovic@neoma-bs.fr, NEOMA Business School, France

Panels & Workshop Co-Chairs
Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, aneta.poniszewska-maranda@p.lodz.pl, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Laura Trinchera, laura.trinchera@neoma-bs.fr, NEOMA Business School, France
Biljana Mileva Boshkoska, biljana.mileva@ijs.si, Jo탑ef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Symposium Advisors
Ashish Gupta, azg0074@auburn.edu, Auburn University, USA
Lakshmi Iyer, lsiyer@uncg.edu, UNC Greensboro, USA
Ramesh Sharda, ramesh.sharda@okstate.edu, Oklahoma State University, USA
Vic Matta, matta@ohio.edu, Ohio University, USA

Web and Technology Chairs
Jenna-Shae Harris, jbharris2@uncg.edu, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA
Sofia Amador Nelke, sofiamador@gmail.com, Ono Academic College, Israel